Huntsville Housing Authority eyeing four-plex off Old Madison Pike

HUNTSVILLE, Alabama -- City Councilman Will Culver has called a special meeting Tuesday to discuss the Huntsville Housing Authority's possible purchase of an apartment building on Friar Tuck Drive.

Culver said he learned late last week that the authority is eyeing a four-plex in the Sherwood Park neighborhood near the corner of Old Madison Pike and Wynn Drive, just west of Calhoun Community College.

"The purpose of our town hall is to have HHA representatives there," Culver said today, "so we can decipher whether we're going to allow them to purchase that property or whether it's something we're going to try and block."

Huntsville City Councilman Will Culver

"I represent the constituents there in Sherwood Park, and I'm going to go with whatever they recommend."

While the Friar Tuck apartment building is privately owned, Culver said several tenants receive Section 8 rental assistance from the Housing Authority.

The agency has until Wednesday to commit $367,000 in federal "replacement housing factor" dollars toward new public housing units to offset apartments taken out of service in recent years at Searcy Homes, Sparkman Homes and Drake Towers.